Professor Ray Beachey was a Canadian who taught prominent African personalities.
"A quiet believer in the benefits of the British Empire, he liked to refer to Makere as a crossroads of the world. His students included Benedicto Kiwanuka, Uganda's first prime minister; Yusuf Lule, the country's provisional president in 1979; and Mwai Kibaki, the former Kenyan president, all of whom had an avidity for learning that was not matched by Beachey's students in his native Canada. Among his colleagues were the writers VS Naipaul and Paul Theroux, who referred to Beachey as the "gentle Canadian" in his travelogue Dark Star Safari."¹
"The Mad Mullah of Somaliland", deserves a pat on the back for shedding light on the military prowess of Hasna Doreh, who was one of the wives of Seyid Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, the man who fought the British Empire for almost two decades.
The distinguished professor placed Hasna Dorre in par with Queen Boadicea who united British men to fight off the invading Romans.
Female Somali fighters who played vital roles to wade off belligerent foreign invaders, were referred to as Darwiishaad or Darawiishaad.²
In the year 60-61 AD, Boudicca assembled an army of 70,000 to fight off the Romans even though her forces were defeated.
Sources
¹ SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
² Hoehne, Markus (2011). Political Orientations and Repertoires of Identification: State and Identity Formation in Northern Somalia.
³ Koch, John (2006). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia.
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